Explore Douglas, Alabama, with this interactive street and satellite map.
This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Douglas, Alabama. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Alabama or beyond.
Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).
TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Douglas.
Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.
Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.
| City | Douglas |
| State | Alabama (AL) |
| County | DeKalb County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 34.168258 |
| Longitude | -86.323386 |
| Population | 761 |
| Density | 86.3 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Codes | 35967, 35964, 35957 |
| Area Code | 334, 205 |
| County Seat | Fort Payne |
| School District | Marshall County School District |
Douglas occupies a quiet expanse of red-clay earth where the horizon is defined by the steady, upward reach of woodland and the rugged silhouette of Castle Rock rising two miles away. It lies 1.3 miles south-southwest of Fort Payne, AL (from Fort Payne, AL: bearing 203°T), and is situated 8.2 miles southeast of Rainsville. The air here holds a distinct weight, thick with the scent of pine and the damp, cooling breath that lifts from Bear Creek as it meanders just a mile from the center. Within the immediate landscape, Douglas Community Park serves as the primary anchor for the local pace, offering a patch of managed green that contrasts with the wilder, tangled brush of the surrounding backcountry. To the east, the low-lying terrain of Railroad Valley draws the eye toward a horizon that feels vast and unhurried, while the distant, shimmering surface of Weiss Lake remains a twelve-mile presence that influences the regional moisture and the soft, diffused quality of light at dusk.
Agriculture remains the quiet engine of life in Douglas, where fields of pecans and seasonal crops have long dictated the rhythm of the calendar. The local economy is tied to the stubborn, productive nature of the soil, reflecting a history of settlement that prioritized the utility of the land over the frantic expansion found elsewhere. Residents move with a deliberate grace, accustomed to the seasonal shift from the humid heat of midsummer to the crisp, clear stillness of autumn evenings. While the memory of the past lingers in the architecture of older homesteads and the layout of the back roads, the daily life of Douglas remains focused on the practicalities of the present, maintaining a character that is defined more by the persistence of the seasons and the cycle of the harvest than by the noise of the outside world.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Douglas, Alabama. Coordinates: 34.168258, -86.323386. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.
Detailed location data for Douglas includes the ZIP code (35967, 35964, 35957), telephone area code (334, 205), county seat of DeKalb County (Fort Payne), and school district assignment (Marshall County School District).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |